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Carl Stonley, 51, who lives in St Leonard’s Drive, and who has sent a letter to both the police and the city council, said: "This drastic percentage increase created conditions that encourage car-driving visitors to Wollaton Park to avoid the increased parking charge and park their cars on the local roads instead of the designated parking spaces within Wollaton Park.

Pictures taken by residents of roads affected before and after the increase in car parking charges at Wollaton Hall and Deer Park.

"One consequence of this displaced parking from Wollaton Park, is that the health and safety risks to the public have increased, particularly on days when Wollaton Park is busy with visitors.

"It should not be acceptable to prioritise generating income at the expense of increasing public health and safety risks.

"Simply by removing parking charges in Wollaton Park and advertising free parking to the public, displaced parking onto the local roads would stop and public safety risks would reduce."

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Keith Pollard, 69, from Rectory Gardens, says that the city council is doing everything it can for residents, but says the increase in charging has seen more drivers use the streets for parking.

He said: "They are residential streets and quite narrow so not designed for on-street parking. The city council has been active in trying to get us residents' parking permits. There has been an increase in nuisance parking since the increase in charges at Wollaton Park.

"We are hoping the proposed residents' parking will be in place in the near future.

"It is dangerous because they are parking at the entrance of streets and if they park on both sides you would not get an ambulance or fire engine through. Sometimes they will block driveways".

A Nottingham City Council spokesman said: "We were already exploring ways to address parking issues in streets around Wollaton Park well before parking charges went up at the park.

"Residents had raised concerns about parking on streets increasing at certain times, such as weekends and bank holidays, when events are on at the park or key times when people turn up to walk dogs.

"We have consulted on introducing a residents' parking scheme which would prohibit people visiting the park from parking in these streets at all times.

"However, this has been rejected by some residents. We are now looking at a seasonal scheme which would reduce inconvenience for residents and limit the restrictions to between March and October when there’s most activity at the park.

"Parking charges at Wollaton went up by just £1 (a 50 per cent rise) in July, the first increase in six years, and they contribute towards maintaining and investing in this very popular site and the events that are staged there.”

Mr Stonley added: "There is no need for the council to discuss residents parking or invest in it if the council removed the problem they created in the first place".

He explained that residents had originally rejected the parking scheme proposed by the council as there was a three permit limit per house, which residents felt was unfair towards larger families or those who wanted to hold family gatherings at their homes. They also felt a permit scheme would simply move the problem to other, nearby roads.